Nature Plants, Published online: 28 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01838-1The activity of distinct and antagonistic CLE peptide pathways intersects to produce and specify different tissue layers in the Arabidopsis root tip. Their…
Nature Plants, Published online: 21 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01827-4Astragaloside IV, the key active compound in Radix Astragali, a medicinal plant used for immunomodulation in Asia and Europe, now has a fully elucidated bi…
Nature Plants, Published online: 18 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01831-8The development of high-yielding, resilient cultivars is the primary goal of many crop breeding programmes, but the uptake of these new cultivars is persis…
Nature Plants, Published online: 18 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01834-5With an increasing ability to understand the complexity of living systems, it becomes more and more evident that well-defined canonical functions of protei…
Nature Plants, Published online: 18 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01826-5The haplotype-resolved, chromosome-level genome assembly of tetraploid modern rose (Rosa hybrida), along with resequenced genomes of 233 diverse Rosa acces…
Nature Plants, Published online: 16 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01824-7This study identifies a kinesin motor at kinetochores that teams up with a key mitotic checkpoint protein to orchestrate proper chromosome movement during …
Nature Plants, Published online: 15 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01832-7Synthesis of decades of field, herbarium and taxonomic studies show the presumed extinct species of Ecuador’s iconic Centinela ridge have survived, reveali…
Nature Plants, Published online: 15 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01818-5The peri-germ cell membrane: poorly characterized but key interface for plant reproduction
Nature Plants, Published online: 15 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01829-2Despite theoretical expectations of balanced 1:1 sex ratios between females and males, many dioecious plant species exhibit sex ratio distortions. A recent…
Nature Plants, Published online: 14 October 2024; doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01823-8This research identifies a regulatory role for the receptor-like kinase FERONIA in Arabidopsis roots, finding that it balances growth and immunity by activ…